-r1, -r2, -r3 are also usually fixes to the ebuild itself. For example, one -r5 ebuild had the Xorg modular deps included in it, while the -r4 did not. So it also affects your own system and how it interacts with portage. I suggest you use -l flag with emerge, or head/cat the Changelog inside the ebuild which is asked to upgrade to -rX and see if it is important or not before thinking of masking all the -rX updates.
On 06/09/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...even if... The problem is that there is always something to emerge every day it seems and it's getting tiresome, especially for things like KDE or Gnome that are huge and take days on my 1Ghz Celeron. I run a firewall and only ssh access (no telnet). There are no users on the server (except me), so I'm not real worried about "gaping security holes", as I'm sure the 0.5.3 version will fix it and be released not far after the -r1, -r2, -r3 that I tend to always see. > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 1:49 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge > --update world > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 01:31:06 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > > I'd rather just upgrade when a new "real" version is > available instead > > of all these itty bitty incremental upgrades like "rc1" > "rc2" etc. or > > 0.5.2-r1 and 0.5.2-r3 etc. > > Even if 0.5.2-r1 contains a patch to fix a gaping security > hole in 0.5.2? > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Thru Incorrect > Understanding of Mathematics > -- [email protected] mailing list
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